Earlier in the night, Ted Kremer, the Reds' occasional bat boy who lives (and lives so very well) with Down syndrome, had asked Frazier to hit a home run for him. That, of course, is a baseball cliche as old as any, but there's nothing tired about what happened in Cincy Thursday night ...

“It was great how excited — that look,” Frazier said after the game. “I started smiling even before I hit home plate because I knew it. They said he forgot to pick the bat up, so the umpire was yelling at him. Such a great guy. You can't get mad — even if you have a terrible day. How can you be mad when you've got a guy like that around?”

How can you, indeed.

And here's that picture -- the one that'll be the best thing you see all day ...